What personality tests from tech industry jobs reveal about the sector's gender gap

Job matching platform Good&Co analyzed the personality traits of 1,029 male and female employees from five of the nation's most influential technology companies — Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Uber — to determine whether there are gendered personality differences in the tech industry, reports Fast Company.

Here are five things to know.

1. Male Facebook employees were 40 percent more likely to express an inflated sense of superiority than female Facebook employees.

2. Female employees at Apple and Microsoft are 23 percent more likely to experience anxiety than their male counterparts.

3. Male Microsoft employees are 35 percent more ambitious and 34 percent more calculating than female Microsoft employees.

4. Men at Uber are 32 percent more socially assertive than female Uber employees.

5. The workforce at Google did not indicate any major personalities differences between male and female employees. 

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